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Planned development of graduate student housing to include 9-acre Merwick site

Planned development of graduate student housing to include 9-acre Merwick site

The University submitted site plans to the Regional Planning Board of Princeton last week for new residential housing north of campus. The University plans to develop the 16-acre Stanworth Apartments site, with its 23 buildings built in the 1940s, and the adjacent nine-acre Merwick site as part of its Housing Master Plan to increase faculty, staff and graduate student housing by 2016.

NEWS | 02/23/2012

Aspire Campaign raises $1.64 billion

The University’s Aspire Campaign is well on track to completion, University officials said, having raised $1.64 billion — or 94 percent — of the $1.75 billion the campaign is slated to raise by this June.

NEWS | 02/23/2012

Greek life committee to delay report

The group charged with determining how to implement the University’s policy banning freshman rush will not issue its recommendations until after midterms, according to committee chair and Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Gender-neutral housing expands to 278 spots

Gender-neutral housing for upperclassmen has been expanded for the upcoming academic year, with a total of 278 beds in the Spelman, Scully, 1901-Laughlin and Foulke dormitories included in the revised program.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Firestone to replace carrels

For seniors and graduate students majoring in the humanities and social sciences, an iconic piece of the Princeton experience is soon to disappear. In light of the increasingly low rate of carrel use, Firestone Library is replacing its 500 metal carrels with newer ones as part of the building’s eight-year renovation plan.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Professor emeritus Malcolm Steinberg passes away at 81

Molecular biology professor emeritus Malcolm Steinberg, who retired in 2005 after 39 years at the University, died on Feb. 7 at his Princeton home, the University announced yesterday. He was 81.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Silberman ’13 enters ‘Iron Chef for Jewish Mothers’

Eric Silberman ’13 has been named a semifinalist in the sixth annual Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off contest, which will present a $25,000 award to the national grand prize winner.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Prospect 12

I met him where he told me, on University Place, and we drove to pick up the paper, this paper, to be delivered all over campus and beyond — all before breakfast. I caught a glimpse of what Princeton is like during this witching hour, and I like to think I’m a little bit wiser for it.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

Q&A: National Teacher of the Year

Michelle Shearer ’95, who was named National Teacher of the Year in 2011, returned to campus to speak with students, teachers and local superintendents Wednesday night.

NEWS | 02/22/2012

West GS ’80: ‘I’m having a wonderful time ... getting arrested.’

African American studies professor and civil rights activist Cornel West GS ’80 has kept up a hectic public schedule since announcing his plans in November to leave the University for the Union Theological Seminary in New York City at the end of this academic year.

NEWS | 02/21/2012

First Transit, Occupy collide in dispute

A TigerTransit bus driver was temporarily suspended last week, allegedly as a response to his attempts to start a union, sparking an aggressive campaign from Occupy Princeton to save his job. After being handed a two-day suspension, the driver, only known as “Al,” returned to work last Wednesday.

NEWS | 02/21/2012

Vegetarian co-op takes control of 2D room draw

The Housing Department will no longer control room draw into the University-owned house at 2 Dickinson Street, informally known as 2D.This year, the draw will be controlled by the 2D vegetarian co-op, which cooks and eats meals in the house.

NEWS | 02/21/2012

News & Notes: Princeton MSA responds to alleged NYPD surveillance at other Ivies

Between 2006 and 2009, the New York Police Department went undercover to monitor the actions of Muslim student groups at Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and at least 12 other schools across the Northeast, the Yale Daily News reported on Saturday.

NEWS | 02/21/2012

2 named Pyne winners

Ann-Marie Elvin ’12 and James Valcourt ’12 have been awarded the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest distinction that can be given to an undergraduate, the University will announce today.The Pyne Prize was established in 1921 and is given annually to the senior who exemplifies qualities of academic excellence, leadership and strength of character.

NEWS | 02/21/2012

News & Notes: Graduate students earn Jacobus fellowship

Four graduate students were awarded the 2012 Jacobus Fellowship, the University announced on Monday morning.Richard Baliban GS, William Cavendish GS, William Deringer GS and Andrew Huddleston GS are the winners of this year’s fellowship, an annual award that recognizes graduate students who exhibit “the highest scholarly excellence,” according to the University.

NEWS | 02/20/2012

Tilghman nets over $500,000 from Google

For the most part, University President Shirley Tilghman makes influential decisions relating to Princeton policies in or around her office at 1 Nassau Hall. But four times a year, she finds herself in Silicon Valley, making influential decisions of a different type.Tilghman is one of many presidents of American universities who serve on a corporate board. Since her appointment in 2005, she has served on the Google board of directors and earns around $500,000 annually from her position at the company.

NEWS | 02/20/2012

USG program evaluates Gmail, Office 365 as possible replacements for current webmail

The Office of Information Technology and the USG are running a pilot program this month to test products that may improve webmail services.Students participating in the program are assigned to test either Google Apps for Education, which offers Gmail and other Google products, or Microsoft Office 365, which offers Exchange 2010, SharePoint and Office applications like Word and Powerpoint.

NEWS | 02/20/2012

For ambassador, thesis becomes career

In the spring of 1986, a young history major wrote a thesis on American foreign policy in French West Africa. In 2012, the now-alumnus is shaping American foreign policy in former French West Africa. He insists it was “random chance.”Lewis Lukens GS ’03, the American ambassador to the nations of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, authored an undergraduate senior thesis that bore more resemblance to his future career than he realized at the time.

NEWS | 02/20/2012

New hospital to open in May

Stepping through the main doors of the newly built University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, visitors enter a wide and expansive atrium with light colors and windows that span the entire length of the wall.Joseph Stampe, vice president of development for the Princeton HealthCare System, admitted that the atrium is very different from a conventional hospital atrium.

NEWS | 02/20/2012

Shared meal plan sees more popularity

Despite the recent uptick in the popularity of shared meal plans, Colonial Club — which has offered the most out of any club — has scaled down its shared meal plan offerings, eliminating its nine-meals-per-week plan.Since the introduction of the four-year residential college system in 2007, the popularity of shared meal plans has grown year by year. Shared meal plans allow students to benefit from a spacious residential college room while maintaining the full social experience of an eating club.

NEWS | 02/20/2012

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